Guild Wars 2

Plague.5329:

I tried to, when I got depressed over how GW2 turned out. Some old existing GW players that had been loving the game for years wanted to see it evolve into something better, so we could continue playing. But as has been said, the two aren’t related. In that sense, GW never got a real sequel.

The mechanics, which were either ahead of their time or common for 2001 (when the game started development) are of course too hard for new players to get used to, going backwards. For those of us that played the original game for thousands of hours, starting a new character in pre-searing Ascalon can be pretty fun, but ultimately more depressing than rewarding. Especially during Eye of the North, the game also started to look and feel more and more like it was breaking its own world building with ridiculous events and items meant to try to keep players interested, plus game balance took a huge nose dive.

I wouldn’t really recommend it. GW1 in its prime was an amazing game, though. I hate MMOs, and GW1 was a fantastic alternative.

Couldn’t agree with you more.

Its unfortunate that GuildWars had to die out. I loved that game even more than GW2, in fact I stopped playing GW2 because it was so different than GuildWars. The speed clears were so fun in GuildWars and it was all based on skill with a cap of only lvl 20. I really loved GuildWars and played it for years, and am very sad to see it go down to this other game they call “GuildWars” 2 because it is so much more like WoW and not the same game.